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TWO COPIES RECEIVE. 

t ji>rary of GOBg^iftl^ 

m 9 - 1900 



Beautifully printed on fine paper, price 25 cents. 

Uniform with this Number. 

Lead, Kindly Light John Henry Newman, D. D. 

Home, Sweet Home John Howard Payne 

Rock of Ages Rev. A. M. Toplady 

AuLD Lang Syne Robert Burns 

Nearer, My God, to Thee Sarah F. Adams 

Psalm of Life H. W. Longfellow 

Art thou weary St. Stephen 

He giveth His beloved Sleep T. C. Tildesley 

One Sweetly Solemn Thought Phoebe Gary 

Thou Everywhere Gharles J. Sprague 

Abide with Me Rev. Henry F. Lyte 

Night Song Richard Storrs Willis 



Copyright, 1900, by Moses King. 



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HCEBE GARY and her sister Alice were both 
Universalists, but their hymns have been ac- 
cepted by all denominations. Of the many 
written by them none has had the popularity 
and universal adoption of " Nearer Home," 
written by Phoebe when she was not yet eighteen years old. 
It has been translated into all languages, and it is said that 
the mere humming of the tune to which it is sung, in a gam- 
bling den in China, was sufficient to save one of the gam- 
blers by recaUing home associations. Phoebe died (in 187 1) 
at the age of 47, of grief at the death of her sister. 



One ^eetlp solemn t{)0U8{)t 
€ome^ to me o'er anb o'er : 
31 am nearer Ijome to^bap 

€ljan Si'be eber Been Before^ 

^^^ earer mp f atljer'^ gou^e, 
A^ ^ l©l)ere tlje manp manie^ion^ fie ; 
fearer tlje great tDljite tljrone, 
l^earer ti)e trp^a^tal ^ea* 



V% carer tfje Bounb^ of life, 

A^ ^ naijcrr toe lap our fiurbenis? botoit; 

J^earer babing tijc cro^^, 

l^earer gaming tlje croton. 

%^ut Iping tiarMp fettoeen, 

*VJI J©inDing aboton tJjro' ti^t nigfjt, 

3[^ tfte silent unfenoton stream, 

€l|at kab^ at \m to tgc ligftt 



Batljcr, Be neat tDljcn mp feet 
Slice flipping o'er tJje 6rinfe, 
ipor it map fie 3! ^^^ neater Ijome, 
l^earer notD tljan SI t|)mft. 



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One sweetly sol-euiir fthought, Cornea to me o'cr^ond o'er. 




I nm near-er home to day, Than iVe ev . er been 'l»e fore. 



Near>er niyFa-thers hoase, Hlterethe man • y mansions lie, 




Near-ertheboondsof life. Where we lay our burdens down. 




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may liC I aui near - er home Near-ep now than I think. 



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Annual Subscription, $12.00. Feb. 9, 1900. 



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